Meta Reels Is Filling Up With AI Slop of Faith Healers Performing Miraculous Cures
Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech If you haven’t taken a scroll through the reels on Instagram and Facebook in a while — or if your algorithm is sufficiently shielded from the avalanche of troubling AI slop infesting its feed — you may have missed the rise of AI faith healers performing miracles on impossibly disgusting ailments. Take a quick peek through the dregs of Facebook’s AI influencers to see just what we mean — but don’t say we didn’t warn you. It’s incredibly graphic. On an account called “Mystery Hub,” for example, a quick scroll reveals hundreds of clips showing various spiritual leaders make quick work of inexplicably elongated legs, pus-oozing tumors, and what appear to be omphalopagus heads, a type of conjoined twin. Though many clips only have a couple hundred views, some have hundreds of thousands, while a handful have tens of millions. One clip with at least 120,000 views shows a woman with an impossibly diseased foot — not to …

